Edvard Munch's The Scream

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Edvard Munch’s stylistic choices in his painting, The Scream, effectively convey his perspective of fear through his style of the characters, the color, and the stroke mark. Like a skillful artist, Edvard Munch had effectively demonstrate his perspective of fear through the character’s body language and expression. Based on his illustration, fear is demonstrated when the character appears to abnormally cupped his/her pales hands across the sunken cheeks of his/her pale, open-mouthed, skeleton-like face. As if the character is terrorized, he/she seemed, by the swaying motion of his/her body, to melt and weakened in the face of fear. Therefore, by effectively illustrating the inner fear of the character, Edvard Munch had expressed his perspective